Michelle Grant of Denmark talks with reporters at Lakeshore Lighthouse in Kewaunee on April 17 after being introduced as the $4 million Megabucks jackpot winner.

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Every two weeks Michelle Grant visits her grandmother in Kewaunee with her father and, on the way back to her Denmark home, they buy lottery tickets at the Lakeshore Lighthouse convenience store, the BP station at 1614 Center St. and Wisconsin 29.

That was the routine again on April 13, and the next morning it paid off in an unimaginable way.

Grant, 47, who grew up in Kewaunee as Michelle Doperalski, was introduced as the winner of the $4 million Wisconsin Lottery Megabucks jackpot during a news conference at the store April 17. ...